The Kazakh Language...

While I don't know everything about the Kazakh language nor would I ever hope too. I do have a basic running analysis that I have created after 8 months of using and learning the language. Here it is....

A phonetic based language which branches off the turkic ligua tree. It actually reminds me a lot of Tagalog not in word meanings but the ways it is spoken. FAST. In common usage words are rolled off the tongue and entire sentences can have reverse meanings depending upon additional sounds added to root parts of words. My first 4 months at site life was a bit of a language guessing game where I could understand the majority of what was said but I was never quite sure since one sound can make a statement a question, negate it or even pluralize it.

But also in traslation simple kazakh sentence will often require very long translations due to the sounds and how each sound translates. But the language I find very pretty and flowwy (yes flowwy)


Lets do a simple exercise.
Apple - allMuh (stress is on the second half of word normally in Kazakh, all as in all. Muh as in Mum.)
to take - ALLU

In Kazakh like in english we drop the to/U part.
English "Take the apple"(Kaz doesn't use articles, a difficult aspect for a teacher)
Kaz. "allMUH all" (with the verb always being at the end)

"Don't take the apple" an additional sound is added to the verb stem "Muh"
"allMUH allMUH" 2 words exactly the sames in sound but then additional sounds are added if you pluralize the statement

"Don't take the apples" an additional sound is added to the noun word which is dependent upon the sound and if it is a hard or soft word in this case the sound is (LAR) as in Singular.
"allmuhLAR allMUH" (stress always on the last syllable)

And if you are in Almaty or apple land you say "allmuhtuhDA allmuhLAR allMuh"
DA in this case being the equivilent of in or at. "Don't take the apples in Almaty"

Kinda cool kinda weird how much I think about this stuff. (I have lots of alone time)